Lisa Sylvester

Sylvester comes to WPXI from CNN, where she worked since 2004. There, she served as a cut-in news anchor and correspondent for The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, as well as a Washington-based correspondent for Lou Dobbs Tonight.

Sylvester also spent four years working at ABC, where she served as a Washington, D.C., general correspondent and a correspondent for the network's Weekend News.

Earlier in her career, Sylvester worked as a reporter for KTVI-TV in St. Louis and WMBD-TV in Peoria, Illinois. She also served as a reporter for WKRN-TV in Nashville, Tennessee, where in 1997 she won an Emmy and an Associated Press award for a report on "Tornado Survival."

Sylvester has received multiple awards throughout her career, including the 2004 Business Emmy Award for the "Exporting America" series. She also played a key role in the coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, which earned the network a Peabody Award in 2002 and an Emmy award in 2001.

Sylvester earned a degree in international economics from Georgetown University and a master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.